Homeopathic Materia Medica

APOCYNUM CANNABINUM

(apoc)

(Indian Hemp) Increases secretions of mucous and serous membranes and acts on cellular tissue, producing oedema and dropsy and on skin causing diaphoresis. Acute hydrocephalus. A diminished frequency of the pulse is a prime indication. This is one of our most efficient remedies, in DROPSIES, ascites, anasarca and hydrothorax, and urinary troubles, especially suppression and strangury. In the digestive complaints of Bright's disease, with the nausea, vomiting, drowsiness, difficult breathing, it will be found of frequent service. The dropsy is characterized by great thirst and gastric irritability. Arhythmia. MITRAL AND TRICUSPID REGURGITATION. ACUTE ALCOHOLISM. Relaxation of sphincters.

StoolWATERY, flatulent, with soreness in anus; worse after eating. Feeling as if sphincter were open and stools ran right out. Urine. Bladder much distended. Turbid, hot urine, with thick mucus and burning in urethra, after urinating. Little expulsive power. Dribbling. Strangury. RENAL DROPSY.

Female Amenorrhoea, with bloating; metrorrhagia with nausea; fainting, vital depression. Haemorrhages at change of life. Blood expelled in large clots.